netdev - Re: NET_SCHED cbq dropping too many packets on a bonding interface

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 18:09:36 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Kingsley Foreman <kingsley@...ernode.com.au>
CC:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NET_SCHED cbq dropping too many packets on a bonding interface

Kingsley Foreman wrote:
> i just rolled back the kernel to 2.6.24 and im seeing the same thing,
> 
> I was using 2.6.22 before and didn't see the problem, txqueuelen on the 
> bond0 interface is 0 (the default)

That might explain things, although it shouldn't have worked before
either.

CBQ creates default pfifo qdiscs for its leaves, these use a limit
of txqueuelen or 1 if it is zero. So even small bursts will cause
drops. Do things improve if you set txqueuelen to a larger value
*before* configuring the qdiscs?

Another thing is that CBQ on bond will probably not work properly
at all, it needs a real device since it measures the timing between
dequeue events for idle time estimation. On software devices this
doesn't work.
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